In Finland, college students often wear haalarit, or overalls (what we would call coveralls) to university events, parties, and ceremonies. The appearance of each haalarit will tell you a lot about the wearer. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/31/Haalarit-the-Finnish-Student-Uniform-is-Anything-But-Uniform/For many Americans, the only time we drink champagne is at weddings or on New Year's Eve, so we may as well get the most of out it. For advice, we can turn to scientists like chemical physicist Gérard Liger-Belair...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/31/Science-Knows-the-Best-Way-to-Drink-Champagne/Kelsey Piggott is a master baker in North Salt Lake, Utah who specializes in sourdough bread loves painted with vivid images from life and popular culture. I take it this loaf comes from a scene in which Bluey and Bingo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/31/Elegantly-Painted-Sourdough-Loaves/Now, technically, snowglobes are edible if you're sufficiently reckless. But redditor /u/bloomcakes created edible snowglobe cupcakes that will be completely pleasant to consume.You can find a complete video tutorial abo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/31/This-Snowglobe-Cupcake-Is-Completely-Edible/We don't deserve dogs. The account We Rate Dogs always rates a dog at more than ten out of ten, and at the end of the year, they take on the gargantuan task of selecting the top ten dogs of the year for us. In this year'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/31/The-Stories-of-the-Top-Ten-Dogs-of-2024/Tom Nichols once taught a class in the Cold War and American pop culture, for students who were too young to have experienced both at the same time. Many songs, movies, and TV shows carried references to the arms race be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/30/How-iStar-Treki-Illustrated-the-Cold-War/Insane Facebook Marketplace Items is an X account that showcases some of the strangest things that people are trying to sell on Facebook Marketplace. These include, recently, an Officer Big Mac jail from what must have b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/30/New-Website-Insane-Facebook-Marketplace-Items/Qin, 26, is a professionally trained dancer and the owner of a restaurant in Chongqing, China. The South China Morning Post reports that for a couple of years Qin has attracted customers by performing like a lum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/30/The-Waitress-Who-Acts-Like-a-Robot/I'm a fan of Star Trek: Lower Decks, which just finished after five seasons. It was a popular show with good ratings. Why did Paramount drop it? Internet rumor has it that although subscribers were watching ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/30/Streaming-Services-Produce-Films-to-Watch-While-Youre-Not-Paying-Attention/As he has for the past twelve years, Barry Petchesky has compiled a year-end list of emergency room dramas involving things stuck in people's body orifices. This is as good a time as any to remind you not to stick things...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/30/The-Shocking-Things-Doctors-Removed-from-Body-Orifices-in-2024/Every year since 2007, DJ Cummerbund gives us an artful mashup of the most popular pop songs of the previous year. For the year 2024, there's a distinct theme among the 25 biggest hits, and it's more than just a steady d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/30/Blame-It-On-The-Whiskey-DJ-Earworms-United-States-of-Pop-2024/Before we go into the new year, everyone is looking back to sum up what 2024 was all about. Here at Neatorama, we focus on bringing you interesting, funny, educational, or distracting things to make your day a little bet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/29/The-Top-Ten-Neatorama-Posts-of-2024/Oh, he nailed it. We are in that weird time between two holidays that are too close to go back to school, but some people have to pretend to work and others don't, and some are dealing with the Christmas fallout as guest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/29/We-Are-All-Stuck-in-Limbo-Right-Now/When Americans visit Rome, they are impressed by the beautiful architecture that's old, sturdy, and well-crafted. So this is what the Roman Empire was like! Not exactly. The buildings that make up Rome are several hundre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/29/Eight-Times-Rome-was-Sacked-Pillaged-and-Destroyed/Warning: don't watch this video if you haven't eaten recently, because it will make you hungry. A whole chicken roasted on a rotating spit is a glorious thing. They can cook for a long time without drying out because the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/28/The-Secrets-Behind-Rotisserie-Chickens/We've seen how customs get switched from one holiday to another over time. In the past, Thanksgiving had trick-or-treaters and Christmas was a time for ghost stories. In the 15th century, the church found the festivities...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/28/The-Silvesterklaus-Are-Ready-to-Ring-in-the-New-Year/If you had really good genealogy records, your family tree could theoretically be huge, with infinite fractal branches. That doesn't happen because the population of the world doesn't get bigger in the past. But even if...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/28/Technically-We-Dont-Have-That-Many-Ancestors/The Guinness Book of World Records was founded in 1954 in order to settle pub arguments. It's now a huge organization that keeps up with the biggest, fastest, oldest, and most outrageous extremes of all kinds. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/27/Ignominious-Guinness-World-Records-You-Dont-Want-to-Break/Once upon a time, there were two space programs that did great things because of their Cold War rivalry. Now we have many nations with government-funded space programs, plus private enterprises in the space travel busine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/27/The-Many-Space-Missions-Scheduled-for-2025/Rays, whether they are manta rays, sting rays, or mobulas, swim in a different way from any other swimming creature because they are shaped like pancakes with faces. What's weird is that parts of their faces are on top,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/27/Ze-Frank-Likens-Rays-to-Floppy-Sombreros-of-the-Sea/(Popeye t-shirt on sale at our NeatoShop)The Internet Archive tells us about some of the more interesting works of intellectual property that will become public domain in the United States at the beginning of the new yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/27/Popeye-Will-Enter-the-Public-Domain-on-January-1/We know in our heads that the New Year is just a date on the calendar, the first date, actually, and holds no astronomical or religious significance. But we still have many superstitions around that date, most involving...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/26/What-iNoti-to-Eat-on-New-Years-Day/Embed from Getty ImagesScience fiction addressed our feelings about robots long before we actually had humanoid robots. The word itself came from the 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/26/Eric-the-Early-Humanoid-Robot/I can so relate to this. You love your family, and you love it when they come visit. At the same time, spending weeks getting the house cleaned and the pantry stocked only to see the house wrecked and the refrig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/26/When-the-Holiday-Celebration-is-Finally-Over/Claire Lamman is a graduate student in astronomy at Harvard University. So she's a genius. But she's also humble enough to describe herself as a "procrastibaker" -- someone who bakes in order to avoid academic work....
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/26/Gingerbread-Voyager-Space-Probe/Embed from Getty ImagesAfter some disappointments over the last few years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe had a good year in 2024- 100% of their movies were record-breaking hits! That fact is a little easier to sw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/25/What-Marvel-Accomplished-in-2024/Dr. Laura Driessen is a radio astronomer at the University of Sydney. At Study Finds, she explains that the speed of an object in motion affects sound and light waves from that object relative to an observer. This is cal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/25/How-Would-the-Doppler-Effect-Change-the-Appearance-of-Rudolphs-Red-Nose/Does Santa Claus exist in the video game universe? You betcha- even in Super MarioWorld! But this pixelated Santa in his skivvies turns out to be a grumpy old man who'd just as soon someone else take the title of Santa C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/25/If-Mario-Was-Santa-Claus/(Image credit: daQueen1011)Good stories should be shared with strangers on the internet, because we all need to be reminded of what's good in the world. Imagine getting excited for your baby's first Christmas. Sure, he's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/25/A-Random-Collection-of-Heartwarming-Christmas-Stories/The question for this episode of the What If? series (previously at Neatorama) was, if there were a lake on the moon, what would it be like to swim in it? Well, there is no lake on the moon, but someday there might possi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/24/Finding-a-Way-to-Go-Swimming-on-the-Moon/
